Motivational Quotes

Experience

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel